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About the Author
Amit Prakash is a historian specializing in the history of policing, modern imperialism, and decolonization. He has taught at Columbia University, Bryn Mawr College, Poly Prep, and the Trinity School in New York City. He is co-host of the politics and history podcast No Politics at the Dinner Table. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the International and Global Studies program at Middlebury College.
Reviews
In this wonderful, wide-ranging book, Amit Prakash uncovers the many layers of French anxiety over North African immigration. With great theoretical sophistication and thorough archival detective work, he takes the reader through police efforts to come to terms with, to understand, a process that consistently baffled them, to make North African immigration to Paris comprehensible and, ultimately, manageable. While their efforts famously failed, they laid the foundation for durable patterns of discrimination and inequality that remain of urgent concern. * Clifford Rosenberg, The City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY *
Empire on the Seine is a lucidly written and incisive study of how, from the 1920 through the 1970s, police in Paris fixated on 'North African' inhabitants, a racialized surveillance that also shaped urban space. Prakash's innovative and interdisciplinary approach to spatiality bridges histories of empire and of the city and will prove useful to scholars in many fields. At the same time, the book's extended chronology and deep archival anchorreveal the blind-spots of existing work on the French police and Algerians that more circumscribed chronologies-notably around the Algerian War andOctober 17, 1961-encourage. * Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University *
The book...brings[s] important new insights to the study of policing minorities in Paris and would be of interest to students and scholars of the French Empire, Paris, and (post)colonial policing. Pushing forward conversations about the scope and face of the police, Empire on the Seine invites scholars to rethink mechanisms of state power and state violence. * Danielle Beaujon, University of Illinois at Chicago *
Book Information
ISBN 9780192898876
Author Amit Prakash
Format Hardback
Page Count 282
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 570g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 21mm